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5th. — That if the last analysis of a body gives us pure 

 powers, those powers must be individual atoms — or elements. 

 That atoms being made out of power, must be powers : and 

 that atoms and powers are, to a certain degree, convertible 

 terms. 



6th.— That an atom is an entity of indefinite magnitude, 

 and acts in circles or spheres, itself being the centre. 



7th. — ^That these spheres of action are indefinite, though 

 almost inappreciable, except at their centres. 



8th. — That as the reason cannot conceive an energy without 

 a substance ; and as an energy cannot operate beyond the 

 extent of its substance, so, as the power of an atom extends 

 indefinitely, the substance must do so likewise. 



9th. — That the palpable qualities of matter, such as solidity, 

 hardness, figure and colour, which seem contrary to pure 

 powers, have only a conditional existence. They result from 

 the combined action of many atoms. 



That solid extension depends on the force of resistance, 

 in any aggregate of atoms, which prevent any other substance 

 being extended into the particular space occupied by them. 



That other qualities, which make up our complex idea of 

 body, arise only from the condition of the pure power of 

 body. The hardness of a body depends upon certain forces 

 of cohesion and resistance, — ^its softness upon a modification 

 of the same forces. 



10th. — ^That inertia and weight are the properties of a 

 pure power — neither can be lost or annihilated. 



11th. — ^That the reaction of these forces, when disturbed, 

 may show itself in the extrication of certain phenomena, as 

 gravitation, heat, electricity. 



That electricity is owing to a particular excitement and 

 determination of the energy of atoms, and not to a separate 

 and peculiar fluid. 



] 2th. — That an atom is a pure power, and that the inde- 

 finite extension of its entity will account for the primary and 



